The IMD database, World Competitiveness Online, analyzes and ranks the ability of nations to create and maintain an environment that sustains the competitiveness of enterprises. Countries are ranked by four broad categories: business efficiency, infrastructure, economic performance and government efficiency; there are 300 sub-categories. Locate country profiles as well as consolidated rankings.

Legal Source is an excellent resource for attorneys, educators, business people, law librarians, and others involved with the law. Providing full-text coverage of the world’s most respected scholarly law journals, Legal Source is the authoritative source for information on current issues, studies and trends in the legal world. The collection includes over 1,200 full-text journals and over 2.5 million records, including book reviews and case citations. Legal Source offers information centered on the discipline of law and legal topics such as criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, medical law, labor & human resource law, ethics, the environment.

On Saturday, March 9, 2013 ProQuest will install new enhancements, features, and databases, to improve the research experience. Highlights from this release include:

Publication search & discover enhancements

Thesaurus search & discover enhancements

A six (6) hour maintenance window is needed to install these enhancements. The window will take place from Saturday, March 9, 2013, at 7:00 PM PST to Sunday, March 10, 2013 at 1:00 AM PST All ProQuest databases will be offline during this time-period.